Improvement in cotton-ties



UNITED' S'rarns PATENTE CHARLES W. WTAILEY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-TIES.

.Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,698, dated October9, 1866.

To all whom/it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES W. WAILEY, ot' the city ot' N ew Orleans,parish of Orleans, and State ol' Louisiana, have invented a new andImproved Cotton-Tie; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figureaisaperspective view ot' my tie disconnected from a hoop; Fig. 3, aview of my tie representing, in perspective, its position. whenreceiving the unattached end of a hoop. Fig. 2, a top view of my tiewith hoop attached, and Fig. l a perspective side view of my tie withhoop attached.

My invention consists of a metallic tie or buckle, A, having twoprojecting circular or curved lips, a b, that are cut or thrown out ofthe plane ot its surface sufficiently to admit of the easy. insertion ofthe hoop into the slots or apertures produced by the` cutting, and insuch manner that there are no angles between the points of theprojecting lips to abrade or cut the hoop in the practical use of theappliance, experience having demonstrated that whenever there areangles, however obtuse, on either surface of the tie the hoop is injuredand weakened, if it be not absolutely out.

No part of the metallic plate being' cut away in forming the projectinglips a b, it is obvious that if the same were replaced or forced backinto their original position they would exactly ll the space theyoriginally occupied 5 and it' a piece of hoop-iron of the kindordinarily used in banding cotton were 'introduced into the openingbefore the 'projecting lips were forced back they (the lips) would impinge upon it upon the principle ot' the wedge, and prevent it fromslipping. The projecting lips c I) in being thrown out of the plane ofthe side of the tie turn, in eect, as upon a hinge at c. (Vide Figs. l,2, 3, 4.) The points of the projecting lips afb pass, in moving, throughthe arc of a very small circle, and hence a line drawn perpendicularlythrough the tie and through the apertures therein, and touching the edgeof the apertures from which the projecting lips were separated, wouldnot be much more distant from the point of the projecting lips than thethickness of ordinary angle, with respectto the line ot' the directionof a hoop around a bale of cotton. It the other end ot' the hoop be bentover the end of the other projecting lip, another right angle is formed,as at d', Fig. l, which is opposite to the tlrst, and hence it followsthat it a lon gitudinal tension be put upon the hoop the resultant ofthe resisting forces that is develA oped by the two opposing rightangles would be divided, and, acting in opposite directions, would hohlor prevent the hoop from slipping.

The method in which my tie is used in conA nection with hoop-iron isshown in Figs. l and 3. One end of the hoop is permanently fastened tothe tie, as shown at e, Figs. 1 and 3. In this manner the end is passedthrough one of the apertures and bent over thc end of the projectinglip. The whole is hammered down, and thus the lip is closed or impingestightly upon the hoop, and the angle in that end of the hoop isestablished.

In putting a hoop upon a bale of cotton, that side of the tie from whichthe lips project is put next the bale, and the tie being bent with thethumb ot' the left hand into position as to the line of the direction ofthe hoop that is shown at Fig. 3, the opposite end ofthe hoop is drawnthrough the aperture at the other end of the tie, as seen at f, Fig. 3,until all the slack is taken up. This done and the pressure taken offthe bale, it expands, draws the tie into a line coincident with the axisof the line of the hoop, and forces the slack or long end of the hoopagainst and around the point of the other end, as seen in Fig. l, andthus eectually secures the hoop from slipping.

The advantages of my invention may be thus stated Itis simple, cheap,and may be readily manufactured. It is quickly and easily adjusted to abale of cotton. Ithas in itself as much strength as there is inhoop-iron, and hence, unlike a Fassman tie, will hold as great a strainas will the hoop itselt. It can be used over and over again, for it canbe taken oft' one bale and applied to another without being in jured orbroken. It does not require a perforation of the hoop, and theconsequent weak= Orgien.

fore I do not claim ties having vertical or angular projections; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as a newarticle of manufacture, is-

The metallic tie or buckle A7 when constructed as described, for thepurpose setforth.

CHARLES W. WAILEY.

Witnesses p (J1-ms. STmNGER, E. BAU.

